Liberal Journalists Plotted to Protect Obama From Rev. Wright Scandal, Online Mag Says

fox news ^ | 7/20/2010 | fox news

[tobyhill]

A group of liberal journalists in 2008 sought to sweep under the rug the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal that threatened to derail then-Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller, an online publication founded by Tucker Carlson, a conservative contributor for Fox News.

The documents offer evidence to conservative critics who have long held that the mainstream media were in the tank for Obama, and bolsters the argument that reporters with major news outlets are biased in their coverage.

Journalists working for Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic expressed outrage over the tough questioning Obama received from ABC anchors Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos at a debate and some of them plotted to protect Obama from the swirling controversy, according to the Daily Caller.

[SkyPilot]

Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent pressed his fellow journalists to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by shifting topics to one of Obama's conservative critics, the Daily Caller reported. "Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares – and call them racists," Ackerman wrote.

[timestax]

NO WORDS !

[SkyPilot]

He continued, "What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically."

Spencer Ackerman

[ThunderSleeps]

Well no duh! It has been obvious since about 10 min into obama’s campaign that the liberal media was protecting him and wildly promoting him. Part of the (ongoing) reason the MSM has lost all credibility and respect. All credibility and respect.

[drypowder]

On the credibility scale the MSM rates 0, nothing more than shills for the liberal hate America crowd. So what’s the news here??

[WilliamofCarmichael]

What do you expect from 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street/campus rabble and their ideological issue?

They follow their hero's (Alinsky) book, Rules For Spoiled Brats. It's all they know.

[SpinyNorman]

Remember the way the media blackballed the Kerry Swiftboat story, but went so far as to fabricate evidence in the Bush Texas Air National Guard story?

They were forced to report the story in October after the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth took out huge ads, while they merrily told the TANG story over and over and over again from the previous May (or was it March?).

[SpinyNorman]

Spencer has D-bag written all over him.

[mcshot]

I remember Bill O being involved in the swiftboat cover up.

[Clinging Bitterly]

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